CDO SEA Hybrid Series - February Edition 2023

Overview

After years of relentless digitization, modern enterprises are shifting their focus. They want sustainable success and are asking their CDOs to create new outcomes, such as new revenue streams, enhanced efficiency, improved agility, better resiliency, and deeper and real-time insights for better decision-making. But organizational structure and culture stand in their way. How CDOs can overcome the human factor?

Join us in this CDO Edition as we bring together digital, transformation, data, IT, and business leaders to discuss the challenges and opportunities that the outcome-centric transformation introduces.

We will look into:

• The new role of innovation, partnerships and ecosystems

• Lessons learned from successes and failures of analytics, artificial intelligence, data and IT modernization projects

• Approaches that CDO’s take to overcome organizational and culture challenges

• How CDOs create sustainable success?

What to expect

• Practition 20:1
• Practitioner : Vendors 20:1
• In-depth Interactions 1:1
• Attendees 150+
• 20+ Sessions Full Day Program

What we will cover

• Changing Mindsets Approaches that CDO’s take to overcome organizational and culture challenges.
• Future-proof Business How CDOs create sustainable success?
• Learnings from Technology Implementation Lessons learned from successes and failures of analytics, artificial intelligence, data and IT modernization projects.
• New Technologies The new role of innovation, partnerships and ecosystems.

Agenda

• 8:30 am Registration and Welcome Coffee(Plenary 09:00 -16:00)
• 9:00 am Welcome Address and Introduction by Sit-Down(Plenary 09:00 -16:00)
• 9:05 am New Year's resolutions every CDO & CIO should make(Plenary 09:00 -16:00) Are you making new year's resolutions and trying to understand which data and analytics initiatives will impact your customers and business the most? Qlik, the leading independent data, analytics and automation company, has just published the Top 10 BI and data trends that will impact organizations over the coming year. In this session, learn how you can take trends like increased use of AI, greater emphasis on real-time data and more widespread cloud-based technologies and apply them in a meaningful way. We will share real-world applications of the trends and help you predict their impact to your business on the year ahead.
• 9:30 am 2023, The Future CDO and a Data Strategy through a Harmonised Approach(Plenary 09:00 -16:00) The past year has been a game-changer for companies worldwide, not because it demonstrated the importance of digitalisation but also because it revealed the crucial need for unity across the organisation. As the world’s most valuable asset, trusted and understood data turns ideas into iconic enterprises and we wonder, what's next? What do we need as CDOs for this new year? And so, unity and a harmonised approach is continually proving to be a key factor in making sure we're onto a sound path as leaders. Join us in this session as Mohammed Rahim shares: The year 2023 and what that holds for us as we look at new technologies Understanding the objectives of all business units and looking at the data teams as enablers sitting in between all these units Understanding ownership, intention and outcomes when addressing ethical concerns
• 9:55 am The New Value Exchange: Privacy & Innovation in a Global Digital Economy(Plenary 09:00 -16:00) Today, data generates more economic value than the transnational flow of goods and services, presenting an untapped commercial opportunity for brands. Yet, harnessing the consumer-data opportunity requires prioritising privacy to protect profits and create a competitive advantage. Amid heightening market volatility, a privacy-first commercial strategy provides a pathway to sustainable growth. In this session, Tealium’s Nick Dennis (RVP, Solution Consulting, APJ) and Anna Koleth (Head of Product & Content Marketing, APJ) highlight the trends and developments in the Asia-Pacific and Japan data privacy landscape. Gain insight into the economic benefits created by recent regulatory developments, and how prioritising privacy can scale growth in a Web 3.0 era. Watch the session to learn: ● How evolving data privacy regulations are transforming market competition ● Why privacy compliance is now a strategic imperative for brands ● The impacts of key data privacy regulations in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region ● How to cultivate competitive advantage by prioritising privacy ● How technology enables privacy compliance and CX personalisation at scale ● How Kmart increased its consenting customer base by 200% with Tealium CDP
• 10:20 am Networking Morning Tea(Plenary 09:00 -16:00)
• 11:00 am Tapping the Full Potential of Enterprise Data with a Logical Data Strategy(Plenary 09:00 -16:00) The creation of new data assets, powered by accelerated digital transformation initiatives can offer organizations unprecedented insights into operations, business processes, customer behavior, competition, and much more. However, organizations are still struggling to uncover the full potential of their data assets due to the siloed nature of data and the inherited challenges that have been deep-rooted from traditional data management practices and approaches. To be the game changer, remain relevant and competitive, organizations need to modernize and optimize the way they manage and derive value from data. Logical Data Strategy presents an innovative, distributed and decentralized paradigm for managing enterprise data. Join us to discover: How Logical Data Strategy helps business users, data scientists, and other data consumers alike in data access, consumption and data-driven decisions How Logical Data Strategy is changing the game in digital transformation, data democratization, and ML/AI initiatives How organizations are benefiting from their Logical Data Architecture implementations
• 11:25 am How Data Analytics Paves the Way for Healthcare Innovation(Plenary 09:00 -16:00) With the right governance approach, organizations can deliver on the data security, data ethics, and data privacy needs of the organization amidst ever evolving and compounding global regulations. As a data leader in healthcare, a traditionally siloed industry, learn about the dynamic and transformative data solutions used in modern healthcare today. Our speaker, Michael Andrew, will dive deeper into the business value and insight innovation that data delivers, with the use of cutting-edge advanced analytics in a safe, compliant and regulatory environment.
• 11:50 am AI and Zero Trust, The inevitable enrichments of SIEM and IAM(Plenary 09:00 -16:00) Internal threats in today's era are complex and crucial in the cyber security domain. Understanding dynamic and multi-variate user behavior is challenging too. Traditional sequential and time-line based methods cannot easily address the complexity of temporal and relational features of user behaviors. Hence, we need an AI based report which enables analysts to understand user behavior patterns which results in identification of anomalies. We can strengthen our security further by including access management as the core of Zero Trust architecture to create a Zero Trust extended ecosystem.
• 0:15 pm Fireside chat: How data and API technologies are driving a new era in banking(Plenary 09:00 -16:00) The banking sector has changed dramatically in recent years as banks, fintechs and e-commerce players that were once fierce competitors strike partnerships that have resulted in a more open financial services ecosystem. Digital technologies play a very important role in this sector. New banking-as-a-service products are connecting organisations like Standard Chartered Bank to fintechs and other companies using APIs to provide a comprehensive set of services and capabilities to enable real time financial transactions. Join Sit-Down’s Director of Research & Production, Byron Connolly, and Standard Chartered Bank’s CTO for Digital Platforms, Niels Maerkedahl as they discuss how data and API technologies are driving a new era in banking. During the fireside chat, they will cover: How partnerships between Standard Chartered Bank and fintechs work and the role that banks play in connecting the two organisations. How the bank is collecting data and using analytics to help identify when it should “cross-sell” products and services to specific customers. What has been done to ensure the bank’s existing technology infrastructure and operating models are ready to support these capabilities.
• 0:40 pm Networking Lunch(Plenary 09:00 -16:00)
• 1:55 pm Harnessing Data, Science and Tech to Drive Innovative Projects(Plenary 09:00 -16:00) Data is a vital ingredient in tech disruption. Carro, Singapore’s homegrown car selling platform has grown tremendously over the past few years. Carro harness data, science and tech to drive innovation. Technical advances include usage-based insurance on mileage and telematics, computer vision and engine sound analysis to reduce subjectivity in manual car inspections. This tech-centric approach has been a leading factor in establishing Carro as a top used car marketplace in Asia. Join us in this session as Bryan shares: How to fuel rapid business expansion with data, science and tech? Use cases of various technologies that helped the business deliver greater value Why tech-centric approach and innovation is key in staying ahead of the market today
• 2:20 pm Data Governance Strategies that Drive Innovation and Transformation(Plenary 09:00 -16:00) Adopting adaptive data and AI is key to the success and resiliency of the AI enabled and automated Enterprise. How do you create a balance between too many rules- or too few for your governing policy and allow for flexibility and promote innovation to achieve your digital transformation strategy? Join us as we discuss how CDOs: Create a culture of collaboration between technology data leaders and business leaders Establish a centre of excellence focusing on critical governance ideas Develop best practices for conducting specific initiatives
• 2:50 pm (Evolve) Leadership at the Speed of Thought(Plenary 09:00 -16:00) Based on 30 years study of the use of coaching skills in the workplace, and 22 years executive coaching with C-Suite leaders, Tony will cut through the plethora of advice and complex leadership models that have been thrust on people managers over the years; and show how just two simple actions can drive a performance culture, get people to “own their piece” of the business, trigger constant performance improvement in individuals and teams, and make rapid change simple.
• 3:15 pm Event Wrap Up and Closing Remarks by Sit-Down(Plenary 09:00 -16:00)

Speakers

• Mohammed Rahim · Global Head Data Management, Standard Chartered Bank
• Danielle Bateman · Head of Data, Digital and Technology, GEM, Takeda
• Tony Latimer · Master Executive Coach, Profitable Leadership Tony is a Master Executive Coach, working globally with leaders in transition; to guarantee promotion success for themselves, build effective leadership teams and sustainable rapid organisational change. Having his first exposure to coaching in the early 80’s, Tony is at the forefront of defining where coaching is developing in the rapidly evolving world of work. He developed the Profitable Leadership® framework for coaching leadership career success and designed TheCoachingApp; which delivers success to internal and external coaches by helping their clients develop leadership skills through micro-learning; build new habits and create measurable behavioural change.
• Bhagyesh Chaubey · APAC & EMEA Head - Data Quality & Stewardship | CDO, Personal Banking & Wealth Management, Citi
• Anna Koleth · Head of Product & Content Marketing, Asia-Pacific & Japan, Tealium Anna's experience extends across the financial services and technology sectors for leading global brands. Having led at the forefront of digital transformation initiatives, she established the regional social media function at a multinational financial services institution and contributed to a digital campaign that won 2 Silver Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Recently, Anna was a founding member of the APAC leadership team at a global B2B technology agency. In this capacity, she served as a trusted advisor to global technology brands regarding data-driven innovation in the age of personalisation. Currently, Anna leads product and content marketing in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region at Tealium. She also serves as a key contributor to Tealium’s Global Privacy team to establish best practice standards in privacy-first customer experience innovation.
• Paul Gray · Regional VP, Asia Pacific and Japan, Delphix Paul Gray is the Regional VP at Delphix, the leading platform provider for delivering compliant data to the DevOps process. With over 20 years of IT leadership in both Multi-Cloud infrastructure sales and Enterprise software, he has extensive experience helping customers transform their businesses. Paul has a passion for building diverse and inclusive teams to drive growth across the Asia-Pacific Region.
• Shanmuga Sunthar (SHAN) · Director of Architecture & Chief Evangelist, APAC, Denodo Shanmuga Sunthar (Shan) is the APAC Director of Data Architecture at Denodo. A Technologist with a career spanning over 20 years, mostly in Data Management and Analytics, Shan has garnered extensive experience in the areas of Digital Transformation, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, Business Advisory, Advanced Analytics Solutions, Analytics Lifecycle Management, Cloud Architecture, Innovation Centers, Enterprise Customer Intelligence Management, Enterprise Fraud Management and Enterprise Risk Management (to name a few). Shan’s passion towards understanding customers’ business challenges and evangelizing state-of-art technologies, personalized solutions and innovative architecture approaches around these needs has resulted in successful implementations of enterprise solutions for his customers and growth for those organizations. Shan is also an active speaker in the regional technology and thought leadership forums. He is also a visiting adjunct at a number of Universities and Institutes of Higher Learning in the region.
• Abhinav Gupta · Head of Partnerships | BytePlus, Byteplus

Partners

• Qlik Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private SaaS company, Qlik offers an Active Intelligence platform, delivering end-to-end, real-time data integration and analytics cloud solutions to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik does business in more than 100 countries and serves over 50,000 customers around the world.
• Denodo Denodo is the leader in data virtualization – providing unmatched performance, unified access to the broadest range of enterprise, big data, cloud and unstructured sources, and the most agile data services provisioning and governance – at less than half the cost of traditional data integration. Denodo’s customers have gained significant business agility and ROI by creating a unified virtual data layer that serves strategic enterprise-wide information needs for agile BI, big data analytics, web and cloud integration, single-view applications, and SOA data services across every major industry. Denodo Platform offers the broadest access to structured and unstructured data residing in enterprise, big data, and cloud sources, in both batch and real-time, exceeding the performance needs of data-intensive organizations for both analytical and operational use cases, delivered in a much shorter timeframe than traditional data integration tools. The Denodo Platform drives agility, faster time to market, increased customer engagement from single view of customer and operational efficiencies from real-time business intelligence and self-serviceability. Founded in 1999, Denodo is privately held, with main offices in Palo Alto (CA), Madrid (Spain), Munich (Germany) and London (UK). For more information visit www.denodo.com, follow Denodo via twitter: @denodo or contact us to request an evaluation copy at info@denodo.com.
• Tealium Helping brands make data actionable, in realtime, across every customer experience touch point. Tealium revolutionizes today’s digital businesses with a universal approach to customer data orchestration – spanning web, mobile, offline and Internet of Things devices. With the power to unify customer data into a single source of truth, Tealium offers a turnkey integration ecosystem supporting more than 1,000 client-side and server-side vendors and technologies. The Tealium Customer Data Hub encompasses tag management, API hub, customer data platform and data management solutions that enable organizations to leverage real-time data to create richer, more personalized digital experiences across every team, technology, and customer touchpoint. www.Tealium.com
• SingleStoreDB Today’s data is complex and often siloed, presenting serious challenges for leading brands that rely on it — to make the right business decisions, to deliver exceptional customer experiences and to stay ahead of the competition. This reliance on data brings with it a need for simplicity, speed and scale. SingleStore delivers the world’s fastest distributed SQL database for data-intensive applications, SingleStoreDB. By combining transactional and analytical workloads, SingleStore eliminates performance bottlenecks and unnecessary data movement to support constantly growing, demanding workloads. Digital giants like Hulu, Uber, Comcast and many more of the world’s leading SaaS providers choose SingleStore to unleash the power of their data — supercharging exceptional, real-time data experiences for their customers. Visit www.singlestore.com to learn more.
• ManageEngine As the IT management division of Zoho Corporation, ManageEngine prioritizes flexible solutions that work for all businesses, regardless of size or budget. ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 120+ award-winning products and free tools cover everything your IT needs. From network and device management to security and service desk software, we're bringing IT together for an integrated, overarching approach to optimize your IT.
• Delphix Delphix is the industry leader for DevOps test data management. Businesses need to transform application delivery but struggle to balance speed with data security and compliance. Our DevOps Data Platform automates data security, while rapidly deploying test data to accelerate application releases. With Delphix, customers modernize applications, adopt multi-cloud, achieve CI/CD, and recover from downtime events such as ransomware up to 2x faster. Leading companies, including Choice Hotels, Banco Carrefour, and Fannie Mae, use Delphix to accelerate digital transformation and enable zero trust data management.

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